Surrey 421 (Lawrence 218, Pope 76). 259 for 5 declared (Sibley 105*, Lawrence 101) drew with Hampshire 333 (Potgieter 84*, Lehmann 69, Gubbins 51, Clark 4-64) and 101 for 2 (Orr 53*)
Dan Lawrence added a dismissive 64-ball 101 to his first-innings 218 from 190 balls,. not even his batting heroics could prevent Surrey 's weather-hit match against Hampshire at The Kia Oval from being drawn.
Nor could Lawrence convince England's selectors that he was worth a place in their 15-man squad for the second Test against New Zealand, which was announced on Wednesday afternoon shortly after he had blazed his fifth County Championship hundred of the season. saw Jordan Cox preferred as the spare batter.
In truth. with 92 overs lost in all to bad weather over the first three days, it was always going to be difficult for Surrey to force a victory in this Championship match after starting the final day 145 runs ahead on 57 for 2 in their second innings.
But at least Lawrence's remarkable hundred, which featured five sixes. seven fours, plus a fine unbeaten 105 by Dom Sibley, gave them a chance to declare at 259 for 5 at lunch to leave Hampshire a fourth-innings target of 348 in 64 overs.
They finished on 101 for 2. content to bat out time after a new burst of 6-4-10-2 by Reece Topley left them wobbling at 19 for 2.
Ali Orr. Jake Lehmann, though, then stayed together for 34 overs either side of tea to put on 82 for Hampshire's third wicket. Orr, playing his first Championship match of the season, ended 53 not out from 121 balls. Lehmann was unbeaten on 26 from 103, with hands shaken at 5pm with 20 overs remaining unbowled.
Surrey thought they might have had Lehmann leg-before on 2 when offspinner Will Jacks slid one on with the arm into the left-hander's pads from around the wicket,. the Australian survived.
And the only other scares came when Lehmann, on 6, edged Jordan Clark over Rory Burns' hands at first slip when he drove flat-footedly at the seamer. just before tea Tom Curran swung a full ball into Orr's pads but did not win the appeal.
Lawrence became only the second player in Championship history to score both a double hundred. hundred at better than a run a ball in the same game, following Graeme Hick for Worcestershire against Glamorgan at Abergavenny in 1990.
He is also only just the third Surrey batsman, after Mark Ramprakash in 2010. Scott Newman in 2005, to hit a double hundred and hundred in the same first-class match.
Lawrence's thrilling assault helped Surrey to rack up 202 runs in 32 overs during a morning session in. Hampshire's only focus was to get their over rate up into positive territory - so as to avoid any points deduction - while also trying their best to stem the scoring rate.
Resuming on 57 for 2, Surrey lost nightwatchman Matt Fisher for 12 when he hit Felix Organ's offspin straight to short mid wicket. Lawrence, joining Sibley, was immediately into his stride.
Unquestionably in prime form after his magnificent first innings 218,. the unbeaten 94 he scored in Surrey's narrow Vitality Blast defeat against Hampshire last Friday evening, Lawrence took just 35 balls to reach his half-century.
Organ, as in Surrey's first innings, suffered at his hands with several sixes disappearing over the leg-side boundary. it was James Fuller's fast-medium which brought the most extraordinary of Lawrence's stream of sweetly-struck strokes.
Crouching down on to one knee. Lawrence simply flicked a ball that was at least a couple of feet outside his off stump to deep square leg for another six. It took him to 88 and, by then, Hampshire's bowlers were finding it almost impossible to bowl to him.
After he fell to Delano Potgieter, after 21 overs of mayhem, Ollie Pope was caught on the deep midwicket ropes for a single. it was Sam Curran who stayed with Sibley until he completed his own hundred with perhaps the best two shots of his entire innings.
In the penultimate over before lunch Sibley pulled Potgieter for six to go to 96. then, next ball, drove him powerfully through cover to beat two fielders patrolling the long boundary side of the ground. Curran, by then, had also pulled Potgieter for six.
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